Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [pers pn] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 2 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 3 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 4 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 5 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 6 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 7 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 8 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 9 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 10 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 11 | Rachel got up from the sun-lounger , her feet burning on the hot stone floor of the terrace , and stared at him through her dark glasses as he strode into the living-room . |
| 12 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |